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And Tana, being a defender, definitely wanted to be adjacent to the party's charge

Despite not being all that great at spotting hidden things most of the time, Tana thinks she might notice something. Perception check at -2 (1d20=15) Well, it was a pretty good roll, anyway. Of course, Tana is untrained in perception and has no Wisdom bonus (or any other beyond level ...)

Tana, also quite dry as a side effect of the arcane wards she uses to protect herself, has always had trouble taking the advice to avoid saying anything if she could not say anything nice. Not that she often had much that was not nice to say, it was just that in the normal course of events she...

Eh, I don't think I'd be comfortable in a game with a wannabe nudist and a tentacle monster. Sorry.

At least in my experience, this was the case. Most of the restrictions removed from casters in 3e were either explicitly or implicitly house ruled away in the 2e games I played in (i.e. the rules for interrupting casters weren't ignored, it's just that monsters would always attack the melee guy...

"Oh, they're well away of the need for someone to pick up a blade or a wand. They just thought I was one of their favorite students of history or arcane theory, which of course meant I should become a full-time academic." Tana said. "And it has its appeal. But I've seen and done things on the...

Tana declines politely. "And people like me are a good part of why that's the case." She said. "But it's been a long time since they had work for me. Another few months of this and I would have broken down and started working on a proper dissertation. There are a few professors back home who...

"Lately. I'm a bit worried about my friends back at the Library; they haven't contacted me in some time." She said.

FWIW, I thought the Essentials subclasses concept was a bad idea, and the Slayer and Knight (and most of the other 'builds' added later, except for the ones like Mage and Warpriest that had very few differences from their PHB versions) should have been their own classes and that multi-role...

"I would imagine I would be right beside you if trouble would arise, if my presumptions about the skills and favored tactics of the rest of this group are correct." She said, trying to sound reassuring. "I try to make it my business to learn everything I can about people I will be guarding and...

I think it's wrapped up in a lot of different things (I voted that they should heal, and I'll be upset if they can't). 1) How important are healers in 5e? If having a class with major healing abilities is extremely important (despite the existence of formal roles, the only edition of D&D where...

A human, Tana was well aware, would carry a rapier on her hip, but that didn't work very well for a gnome, so her blade was on her back along with a backpack, which, like the clothes she wore, looked like it had been selected with equal care to functionality and elegance. She might have made her...

I'm moving at the beginning of next month, but Tana doesn't have any questions for now

"And I have spent too many days at the Shard waiting for word from the Library or another opportunity to come by." Tana said. She'd seen the others in the Shard from time to time, but had never had occasion to speak with them. "It occurs to me that I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Tana of...

"Though remember if we do run into any hostile people or creatures, please do as we ask immediately. We are all, in one fashion or another, trained in facing and dealing out violence. You are not, and our goal is to keep you safe." Tana says. "Can you tell us more about where we are going?"...

... and that's certainly true. But it's also true that a lot of people's stated issues with 4e are based on things that are pure flavor (new alignment system, PoL-land vs Greyhawk and the Great Wheel, the set of races and classes in the first PH and set of monsters in the first MM, going to...

Yup. Heck, because I wanted this to happen, I was very much in favor of WotC doing a 5e ... until I saw what they actually put out there in articles and playtest material. I figured a 1e->2e level edition change (massive overhaul of flavor text heavy on the 3.x-era nostalgia so back to Greyhawk...

Tana, gnome female swordmage 5 "I've actually a fair bit of experience as a bodyguard," Tana says, looking up from her drink, and somehow the 3' 8" gnome seems quite believable when she says that. "What makes a journey to your sister's so perilous that you feel you need to hire guards?"

I wasn't sure if you were just setting things up; you didn't say anything here or have someone poke their head into the Tavern.

And more importantly from WotC's perspective (and Paizo's), however many of them there are, there aren't a lot of them who are actively buying new stuff unless they're mostly buying 4e or Pathfinder stuff and back-converting it (Yes, I know people who do this exist. Yes, a lot of OSR games and...